The Caterpillar and the Polliwog
10 best books like The Caterpillar and the Polliwog (Jack Kent): Lentil, Little Bear, One Morning in Maine, Waiting for Winter, The Popcorn Book, Maybelle the Cable Car, The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud, Eloise Wilkin Stories, Katy No-Pocket, The Baby Sister
| Author | Robert McCloskey |
| ISBN | 0140502874 |
Lentil can’t sing or whistle and he loves music, so he plays the harmonica. The story is set up so that Lentil can save the day with his harmonica. How can someone playing a harmonica save the day, well, it's a great story and you should read it.
I love Robert’s drawings in this story and it’s...
| Author | Else Holmelund Minarik |
| ISBN | 0590319671 |
Enter the world of Little Bear. Children will be entranced by Little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, and his wishes and adventures.This is the first of the five classic books about Little Bear, introducing the funny and strikingly childlike bear cub and his friends. The combination of Else...
| Author | Robert McCloskey |
| ISBN | 0140501746 |
OMG. I love the artwork and the nature drawings in this story. The drawings are black and white with exquisite details. I also like the story. Sal, who I assume is the same Sal in the Sal and the Blueberries, wakes up excited to go to town. She discovers a tooth is loose and the excitement is vibrating in the...
| Author | Sebastian Meschenmoser |
| ISBN | 1935279041 |
What can I say about Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Waiting for Winter except for wow, what a sweet and simply wonderful little story, with equally enchanting illustrations (although I do wish that my local library also had this book in the original German, as Herr Eichhorn und der erste Schnee but that...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0823405338 |
Tony likes to cook. Tiny likes to read. But both twins like to eat . . . POPCORN! So while Tony cooks it, Tiny reads about what popcorn is, how it's stored, how it's cooked, how different Native American people made it, how much popcorn Americans eat, popcorn stories and legends, and popcorn recipes. Tomie...
| Author | Virginia Lee Burton |
| ISBN | 0395828473 |
I have ridden in Maybelle the cable car before. I'm so glad the city voted to keep her as that was still a fun experience. This book is about the history of the cable cars of San Francisco. They almost got rid of them, but a historic vote kept them for everyone to experience. They are a symbol of San Francisco....
| Author | Bob Hartman |
| ISBN | 0745946542 |
A Featured Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month!
In this new collection of international folk tales, storyteller Bob Hartman blends familiar stories with little-known tales. Each story has been chosen for its integrity and for its ability to encourage and inspire children...
| Author | Eloise Wilkin |
| ISBN | 0375829288 |
Little Golden Books illustrated by Eloise Wilkin are among the most remembered, beloved, and requested by consumers. This collection, which contains nine of her best-loved books, will be cherished by collectors, parents, and children for years to come. It contains Wilkin’s most famous Little...
| Author | Emmy Payne |
| ISBN | 0395137179 |
Once, a long time ago, my father gave me a copy of this book. It’s a story about a mother kangaroo who doesn’t have a pouch to carry her joey with. So, starts her adventure searching about for a way.
If a story stayed with you, even decades have gone by, maybe there's a very good reason or a...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0698117735 |
This is one of the few, if not only, books I found that introduced the topic of a new sibling in a favorable way. and ya, ya Of course Tomi DePaola is a genius story teller with his use of dialogue and folksy art work..but we already knew that. His anticipation of his baby sister is tangible but not syrupy and...
Fin M'Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0823403858 |
Fin M'Coul and his wife Oonagh live happy at the top of Knockmany Hill, their days filled with work--Fin working on the great causeway between Scotland and Ireland and Oonagh spinning and cooking and keeping house. All is well with these two friendly giants until Cucullin, the great bully, comes knocking...
